by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 16, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Humility is almost universally admired in the West, and people who are full of themselves are almost universally avoided. But although this value is common, humility is a uniquely Christian virtue. Only if there is a God who created all things and people and...
by St James Lutheran Church | Aug 2, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The Bible describes marriage as two people becoming “one flesh.” This incredible concept is more than just a helpful metaphor – in marriage (and through sex within marriage), God has created a new singular unit out of two separate people. In this way God has...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jul 19, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Marriage has always been both beautiful and difficult, and never more than it is now. Our cultural conviction that we as individuals are more important than our relationships butts heads with our desire to experience love and acceptance. But God has created marriage...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jul 5, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
Many secular people believe that science has made religion obsolete – that since we now have rational explanations for natural phenomena we no longer need God. This assumes that religion’s job is to explain natural phenomena, but while science’s job is to...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 22, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
The word “sin” is a largely forgotten word. People in our culture find it an oppressive and judgmental word, and so we typically use it ironically or pejoratively. But the idea of a “sin” is one that’s held by all people everywhere, because sin is simply the violation...
by St James Lutheran Church | Jun 7, 2022 | Craving Answers, Craving God, Podcast
In our philosophically relativistic culture, telling someone that you believe in a universal truth is at best, weird, and at worst, offensive. How should Christians, who are commanded by Jesus to “go into all the world and preach the gospel” to everyone, live out and...
